Gadgetory

hey guys Joe the Android guy with pocketnow.com do you remember our coverage of the Samsung Galaxy s3 where we showed off the really cool video feature where you could have a pop off window playing your video while doing something else really anything else on the device if you didn't make sure you go back and watch that but if you want to get that same feature that same functionality today on your Android powered device you might want to check out stick it player it's available in the Android Market let's go take a look all right so stick it is just a regular app it's a player you go ahead and launch it just like you would any other app you've got here at your files screen your settings screen where you can make a whole bunch of changes and your how-to that has kind of some tutorials on how to best use the app in settings we can have multi view turned on which doesn't work on all devices but on some of them it doesn't it lets you essentially play more than one video at the same time I don't really know why you'd want to do that but you can you can choose a theme the default is transparent you've got Mac OS Windows seven and over screen that you can select from and all that does is it changes the chrome around your player you can auto hide it do some background playing and then you've got a whole bunch of advanced settings by a whole bunch I mean - and they're really just if things go wrong you can try tweaking those out let's go back over here to files and see exactly what this looks like go ahead and play this you'll notice it opens up this little player now I can come over here let me turn the volume down for you I can go to another screen I can flip around I can do whatever and here's this little floating resizable window that I can drop anywhere on the screen now you notice that there was a little bit of graphical weirdness going on there it doesn't really handle resizing and all of your player elements the way that you'd expect them to but if you want to get in and surf pocket now while you're watching the Android guy weekly for example this is an excellent way to go about doing that go ahead and close out of that one more thing that I want to show you let's hop over to YouTube shall we because I do a lot of stuff on YouTube and that's where the Android guy weekly is so after you've installed the app you'll have a new share via option in some of your video players in this case we can share be a ticket and that's going to send the video over to the app and then we just hit play and once YouTube buffers this in we can navigate away we can move the window all around we can read the article associated with this video whatever you want to do it's there it's easy it's fast you can use it really kind of cool the app is called stick it player it is available in the market right now or the Google Play Store rather it's about $2 a dollar seventy nine us but if you really want to be able to do this and multitask and you don't want to have to wait to buy the galaxy s3 here you go you can do it right now for pocket now showing off the stickit player and highlighting the bloopers from MWC this year I'm Joe the Android guy